Pathways to citizenship not always fair

Tuesday

Feb 26, 2013 at 6:00 AM

This is in reference to the Associated Press article, “US adoptive moms get their Russian kids” (Telegram & Gazette, Feb. 10).

Is adoption of children, citizens of other countries, the same as 11 million children of illegals’ proposed path to citizenship? Do these children become citizens by adoption, or when do they apply to be naturalized? They will be raised with the last names of the parents who adopted them, like a naturalized citizen, thus circumventing citizenship.

Are there not a lot of available citizens of the U.S., or is there a shortage in the U.S. of native-born children?

The Russian children are being brought here and raised by citizens, but they are Russian. What about 11 million children brought here by illegals as children, being given a path to citizenship over legal citizens? Are the 11 million illegals all these years being deported as illegals, or are they given legal status, ahead of legal immigrants, who come here and wait seven years, learn English, and are sworn in, in court by a federal judge?

This is not democratic; this is political football.

There is enough corruption now in our immigration program, statewide and nationally. There are issues with voting, school tuition, driver’s licenses, welfare payments — on and on.

My family came to the U.S. in 1644, from Germany; legal immigrants. Does our Constitution not apply anymore?